In 2002, for the fifth Millennium Chorus The Boîte felt compelled to develop a concert focused on refugees. As Roger King described on the CD release of the concert:
For 23 years The Boîte has been privileged to work with hundreds of migrant artists, many of whom are refugees. We feel deeply ashamed that on this land of enormous wealth we are reduced to incarcerating some of the world’s most vulnerable people behind razor wire fences in the desert.
Flight was a unique production, presenting a narrative about the experience and plight of refugees through both music and storytelling – ‘the combination of an experienced and able choir singing songs around a powerfully moving theme, threaded into a unified work by Arnold Zable’s storytelling, took the whole performance to a new place.’